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17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

author:Xin Qiu

The first: In 2017, Pedro Ruiz, a podcaster on the Youtube video site, decided to shoot a super exciting video in order to attract the attention of the majority of netizens, the content of the video was to test whether the hardcover encyclopedia could block the bullets fired by the Desert Eagle pistol, and when shooting the video, he held the book, and then asked his girlfriend to shoot... As a result, he overestimated the capabilities of the encyclopedia and also underestimated the power of bullets ... The end result was a direct trip to heaven to see God...

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Second, in the 17th century, it was very popular among Spanish upper-class women to eat the fragments of clay pots, because it made the skin fairer (caused by anemia), and when the fragments of these clay pots were eaten, they would cause people to hallucinate, similar to the effect of drug use...

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

The third: In 1979, a woman named Elvita Adams (Elvita Adams) planned to commit suicide by jumping off the Empire State Building in New York, but when she jumped off the 86th floor, she was blown back to the 85th floor by a strong wind...

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Fourth, the first altitude measurement of Mount Everest was done by a team from the United Kingdom, and at that time, the team members worked hard for a long time to finally measure the height of Mount Everest: 29,000 feet. But the number was so whole that there was no fraction of it, and in order to avoid thinking that they were just a random estimate or rounding, the survey team wrote 29,002 feet on the report to make the data look more credible...

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Fifth: Basketball was invented in 1891, and when it was first invented, the basket was a real basket, the kind with a bottom. At that time, as long as a ball was thrown, someone would step on a ladder to take the ball out of the basket, and then the game would continue... It wasn't until 1906 that it occurred to anyone that it would be better if the bottom was removed... It was also from that time that there was a basket used in modern basketball...

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Sixth: In Singapore, there is a vending machine that specializes in selling luxury supercars, and customers who want to buy a car only need to choose the car they want to buy on the display screen, and someone will deliver the car to you within two minutes

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Seventh: Paul Carason, a man from the United States, has been convinced for many years that taking colloidal silver can cure his sinusitis and skin diseases, and after years of taking it, he eventually leads to silver poisoning, which turns his skin blue. He died in 2013 at the age of 62... But the cause of death was not because of silver poisoning, but because of a heart attack...

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Eighth: In fact, as early as 1922, there was already 3D film technology, and the first 3D movie officially released in theaters was a film called "The Power of Love", which used red and green relief technology to achieve 3D effects at that time

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Ninth: In many people's inherent cognition, the deer is a quality animal, when hungry to gnaw grass, when thirsty to drink some mountain springs... In fact, when there is a suitable opportunity to catch small animals, they will choose to eat them without hesitation... In nature, not only deer, but almost all animals will eat other animals when they have the opportunity...

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Tenth: In 2009, an art historian from Hungary, when he and his daughter watched the 1999 version of the movie "Elf Mouse Brother", accidentally discovered that the background painting in the movie was actually the original painting "Sleeping Lady with a Black Vase" painted by the long-missing painter Robert Bereni... Later, it was learned that the painting was purchased by the prop master in an antique store for $500, and for a long time afterward, it was used as a movie prop, and even appeared in many TV series and movies...

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Eleventh: The longest ever TV commercial was broadcast on São Paulo TV in Brazil on December 8, 2018. The commercial officially started at 6 o'clock in the morning, and the live broadcast lasted until 8 o'clock in the evening, which took a total of 14 hours. The main content of the advertisement is to promote a deodorant produced by a cleaning company

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Twelfth: On November 8, 2023, a man in a factory in South Korea was killed by a robot on the production line, according to the investigation, the main reason was that the robot identified the man as a box of bell peppers... Eventually, the man was crushed to death...

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Thirteenth: In the Swedish Museum of Natural History, there is the only complete specimen of the blue whale in the world, which was initially open to visitors, and even people could eat lunch in it, until one day, a couple "did something" in it, doing the indescribable... Since then, it has never been open to tourists...

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Fourteenth: A healthy normal person has a daily bowel movement of about 200 grams to 250 grams, if calculated according to the life span of 70 years, then a person will have up to 5-6 tons of defecation in his life, of course, those who can eat especially will excrete more

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Fifteenth: The human eye can not only move up and down and left and right, but can also be twisted in place, to achieve this effect, just keep your eyes open and stare at the mirror, keep looking at the blood around the eyeball, and then tilt your head to one side, and you will find that your eyeball is twisted

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Sixteenth: In 2006, a Coca-Cola employee approached PepsiCo and wanted to sell Coca-Cola's top-secret formula to PepsiCo for $1.5 million, which he thought was very reasonable. However, PepsiCo's response to this was to notify Coca-Cola directly... This employee failed in that he had no idea that the main shareholders behind Coca-Cola and Pepsi were actually the same people...

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other

Seventeenth: Clouds in the sky also have weight, take the most common cumulus clouds, they weigh about 0.5 grams per cubic meter, if a cumulus cloud reaches a kilometer of length, width and height, then its total weight will reach a terrifying 500 tons... However, in real life, the cumulus clouds in the sky are much larger than this...

17 facts that sound unbelievable, each more outrageous than the other